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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cindy Powell who wrote (273)	4/28/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 3795

Humble request, Cindy, regarding your ". . . instead of trying to fight fire with fire and causing this to escalate . . ." from #reply-9200135. References, please? When did the Webnode Three use fire? Humble thanks in advance! Cheers, Svejk proofsheet.com

To: Cindy Powell who wrote (273)	4/28/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Cindy, you make the statement as if no effort were made to placate Business Wire. That is completely wrong; several efforts were made. You don't know all the background details, and thus, should post accordingly. ______________________________ “you should have recognized that you stepped on some toes and you could and should have diffused the situation with some apologies, instead of trying to fight fire with fire and causing this to escalate into more of a hornet's nest.”

To: Cindy Powell who wrote (273)	4/28/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 3795

Cindy, I think you are wasting people's time and aggravating people that have to work for a living. Mirror, mirror on the wall whose's the most aggravating of them all? Tom (At work)

To: Cindy Powell who wrote (273)	4/28/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 3795

Cindy, I think you are totally correct. Thanks. APRIL FOOLS! the-ocean.com

To: Cindy Powell who wrote (273)	4/28/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Professional comment from a BizWire spokesperson: "It isn't funny," said Tamraz. "No one thinks it is funny anymore." This reminds me of a running joke I have with a friend. It all turns on the phrase: "That just isn't funny!!". Well Janice, you should have recognized that you stepped on some toes and you could and should have diffused the situation with some apologies... Why? You don't seem to understand: they tried to play the Heavy-Handed Authorities with us. We don't like that. Who does? As far as your accusations that Business Wire met you with hostility, I think that you are obviously projecting your own hostile attacking personna and repetoire on Business Wire. Why do you think that? Were you privy to their communications with Jeff and Bill? (By the way, they've never communicated with me at all; can't they figure out how to do that?) And btw: it's "persona". I can understand why Business Wire feels that they need to take a stand, and I think that other wires will follow their lead. Why? We've never run PRs on any other services, so I really don't thing they'd feel they had any reason to come after us. Geez Janice, you have already pulled this stunt off once, why keep doing it year after year. April Fool's, you know, Cindy. Not everyone was born humorless.